Episode 1: An Interview with Staff Director Ken Cohen

In the pilot episode of Commission Chats, Kenneth Cohen, Staff Director of the Commission, discussed our core missions and gave some tips on how the Commission can make a new Hill staffer's life a bit easier.  (Published March 30, 2021)

Episode 5: Glenn Schmitt, Director of the Office of Research and Data

Episode 2: ORD Deputy Director Kristin Tennyson and the Interactive Data Analyzer (IDA)

Episode 3: General Counsel Kathleen Grilli on Amending the Federal Sentencing Guidelines

Episode 16: How Do Revocations Impact Career Offender Status?

This podcast will discuss the impact of multiple revocations on predicates for Career Offender. (Published December 2018)

Episode 15: What's the Guideline in a Drug Conspiracy Case That Resulted in More Than One Death?

With the rise of fentanyl-laced substances on the market, more and more drug conspiracies involve multiple deaths. Is there a way to account for this conduct in the application of §2D1.1? (Published December 2018)

Episode 4: Director Raquel Wilson and the Pivot to Virtual Training During the Pandemic

Episode 11: More Grouping in Child Pornography Production Cases

Can you group counts involving the same victim? Using the Multiple Counts Decision Tree, we will discuss how multiple counts involving the same victim will group. (Published December 2018)

Episode 9: Money Laundering & Safety Valve

This podcast will review the application of the money laundering guideline, using an example in which the underlying offense is a drug trafficking offense and the defendant is safety-valve eligible. (Published September 2018)

Episode 10: The Interplay of Multiple Revocations on Criminal History Scores

Do you have a defendant with multiple revocations on a prior sentence? How does this impact the scoring of criminal history points? Tune in to learn what Chapter Four says concerning multiple revocations. (Published December 2018)